Jack Steinberger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Education #Children #School
The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. ... I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Thinking #People #Progress
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Students #Professors #Feels
I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
-- Jack Steinberger

#States #Experimentation
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Ideas #Generations #Might
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Army #Special #Chicago
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Loyalty #Years #Berkeley
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
-- Jack Steinberger

#New York #Children #Home
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Noses #Faces #Hateful
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Atheism #Doe #Lasts
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Weekend #Chicago #Evening
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Hard Times #Engineering #Income
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.
-- Jack Steinberger

#Problem #Difficult #Scientific Knowledge

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